Based on fieldwork primarily conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic by Raffaello Pantucci and the late Alexandros Petersen,[1] this carefully written book is impressive. It calls for greater attention to the Eurasian landmass to account for the growing dominance of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) in six Central Asian countries” Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,…
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Forum 11 on “The Great Game and Great Reforms of Asia, 1850-1950.”
The theme of the Great Game for this Special Issue of The Journal of American-East Asian Relations which focuses on colonialism and anti-colonialism in Central, East, and Southeast Asia, arises from the original Great Game, which involved a clash of the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia in the nineteenth century. There are…